GlitchNYC

Relive the Heady BBS Days

June 5th, 2006

Steve Conley has written a BBS emulator that takes the old ansi art and telnet world and presents it in beautiful, AJAX-y HTML. He’s designed his entire site in the BBS style, and has included an ajax ansi art editor, and is working on the ability to connect to any existing BBS that’s accessible through telnet.

Check it out at ~~sysoplink.com~~ sysoplink.net

Very cool. What’s crazy is that Steve himself is only 18, so he didn’t get a chance to play with these systems as a kid! He approaches the project with the same wonderment of a cultural anthropologist, marvelling that we ever lived in an online world so different from the net today.